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notaharvardmba··on Queryable Executables
This for some reason reminds me of OS/400 libraries. Basically on AS/400 everything is an object, libraries are basically like DB tables but are first class OS objects (like files in unix). You might want to read up on it, they took the concept incredibly far and it’s of course still a part of i series to this day. You basically can use SQL right on the command line.
notaharvardmba··on Hacker Public Radio
Good reminder to send Rusty Hodge my annual $20
notaharvardmba··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
Also, that’s the wrong mental model. Anyone who runs a sass platform or a website knows that the Internet is already full of millions and millions and millions of bots and scripts and other random shit that’s always trying to attack you, often completely randomly. Security is always a battle between good and evil. All I can say is that if you’re in charge of keeping something secure, you should probably try to get your hands on the best tools to do that. I think the problem in this case is that the best tools to do that are also the tools that are making it more easy for evil to occur. So it’s more for me a perception of someone creating a threat and the tool to fix it and then charging for it which doesn’t feel right.
notaharvardmba··on OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
It lowers the economic cost of a given attack, but also lowers the economic cost of protection. Not sure if it’ll be a perfect balance, but right now there’s a manufactured IMbalance due to embargos and winner picking.
notaharvardmba··on Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents
oauth, saml, oidc accomplish the same thing in a way more mature way, so if you’re already using SSO just do that instead of adding another point of failure..
notaharvardmba··on [dead]
BS
notaharvardmba··on Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?
The mind-body connection is also real.
notaharvardmba··on Claude Opus 4.8
You could run 3 times and overlay/average the images to show how consistent they are
notaharvardmba··on Claude Platform on AWS
Need to just pay all your other vendors through marketplace too!
notaharvardmba··on Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot
Opus 4.7 tends to do this overkill stuff regardless of what you’re trying to do
notaharvardmba··on Claude Platform on AWS
It allows one to conveniently hide your claude expense in your big ass AWS bill.
notaharvardmba··on Choo Choo Words: Spell words to make train tracks, stop the train from crashing
Great game. You could maybe have it pause the train a variable amount if you get double/triple words or letters or higher than 50 points for a word. Then you get rewarded for better play.
notaharvardmba··on Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)
They just want to fire up Colstrip again, 4 huge coal power generation plants that literally print money. If you’re burning shit for AI it’s fine now I guess.
notaharvardmba··on The Self-Help Trap: What 20 Years of "Optimizing" Has Taught Me
This post strikes me as immature. Ask an older person like your grandfather what they think about “self help”. And ask like you believe they are wiser than you, not some doddering fool from “another time”. Look, we’re all slaves to our childhood learnings. But you can change and learn to think in a new way—in a way that’s you. Just be you.
notaharvardmba··on U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
This whole thing feels like a troll. We should assume any new HN account created in the last 18 months is much more likely to be a bot, and now we got OpenClaw to worry about. Nothing stopping our true adversary or troublemakers from giving OpenClaw a plausible new identity and telling it to argue about given world view. Or pass whatever false information it can to try to change public opinion. Can you tell which replies in this thread are real vs propaganda?
notaharvardmba··on U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs
Nixon (R) was the one to open China, fool. Your swift boating doesn’t work here.
notaharvardmba··on "A Crowd-Driven Platform That Lets People Vote
https://www.halfbakery.com
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: Is anyone doing intelligent tiering for logs?
Splunk has done this forever
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: Best way to get laid off
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: Best way to get laid off
Smoke weed every day before work. Everyone will love you but your work quality will decrease, they’ll notice but they won’t want to just fire you because you’re nice. So they’ll “regrettably have to downsize your position” and give you a couple months pay. That’s the worst case; best case you end up in a Peter Gibbons type scenario and get promoted to management and you can help all the other poor saps like you chillax.
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: Why reinvent front-end frameworks and static site builders?
Look up “not invented here” syndrome (NIH)
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: Don't You Mind That LLMs Are Mostly Proprietary?
LLMs are just a statistical analysis of a large body of written information. The proprietary part is mostly the training. It’ll end up being similar to OSM vs Google maps vs HERE. You can get close with crowd/open sourcing, but you can get significantly better at any given point in time by investing millions or billions. At some point the commodity version will be good enough and then no one will invest any more and we’ll stall out for a while until someone succeeds at the next moonshot.
notaharvardmba··on What If Every Picture You've Ever Seen Already Exists?
You should look at the jpeg/mpeg compression algorithm, definitely contains bits of this idea but uses the actual images as a starting point
notaharvardmba··on I spent 15 years developing a tool to make sense of software version numbers
Tl;dr would be nice, as others mentioned. I could see using a variant of the concept to visualize code changes. Have a circle divided into pie slices that represent however you organize your microservices, packages, components, modules or classes. Then distance from the center represents time or reverse time. You could then quickly see changes over time, which areas of the codebase is affected, etc.
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: Has anyone been able to overcome crippling executive dysfunction?
Reframe and reset your viewpoint. Look at the past five years; What value have you created? What mistakes have you made? What have you learned? Then turn that into a new reason Why you are doing what you’re doing.
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: Have you built something that users have become addicted to or overused?
Your creation led to younger me becoming a much better person. I learned when I was being a know it all vs Insightful or Funny. Probably the single greatest learning environment ever created. Yeah, probably would have gotten more work done without it existing, but I wouldn’t have social skills or know as much correct facts about everything. Thank you.
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: How do you feel about the 'Do you have a best friend at work' question?
It’s spelled “Gallup”
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: What are some essays that profoundly changed the way you think
All of DFW’s are life changing, but you have to remember that it’s just one perspective despite it seeming so right. Big Red Son and Shipping Out are some of the more humorous: https://www.openculture.com/2012/02/23_free_essays_stories_b...
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: Imagine a world with 1Tb/s internet. What would change?
Wearable MRI with some type of big model on it that can enable brain to brain communications.
notaharvardmba··on Ask HN: Has degradation in the quality of ChatGPT and Claude been proven?
My opinion is pretty logical: If you train stuff on the entire web, the first training set will be the only set of data that doesn’t include model generated data and thus will be the most realistic about “what is human seeming”. Now the web is full of generated content. That will tend to bias the model over time if you continue to train from the web. There really was only ever one chance to do the web training thing and now it’s over and done. We will have to go back to carefully curated training sets or come up with a truly failsafe way to detect and not ingest model generated content from the web, or you’re basically eating your own feces which will cause model feedback and hysteresis, leading to bias. This is a very big picture view, but it does seem that the “great leap” 2020-2023 was because we got to do this one time ingestion of a wide amount of clean data, and now it’s going to go back to training quality to get better results.
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